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Friday, 2 December 2011

2 :: grrrr ...

Forgive me for not introducing my Blogging Advent Calendar properly yesterday. Better late than never is always a good attitude in my book. A friend of mine introduced me to a new photography app on my phone in the week and I'm loving this pinhole camera photo so I thought I would use it as a bit of a theme to my posts for this month along with one (or two or three) photos that I have taken using my macro lens.

I am going to refrain from using bad language here on my blog, but believe me there has been some used this morning in connection with my Ripple blanket. I am on The Last Row and look! I don't have enough yarn. Grrrr!

I'm feeling so frustrated and am now faced with a dilemma. Do I use a scrap left over from another colour to finish this last little bit and use the change in colour as a reminder that this is the bottom of the blanket? (The chances are that this tiny little portion will never really be seen as it will be tucked in to the bottom of the bed). Or do I track down another ball of wool?

I'm swaying towards using a scrap of the nearest colour so that it is not so noticeable and employing the wabi-sabi aesthetic to the project, embracing the hand-made and all that.

Use a scrap! I always make a mistake in the things I make, or they're not perfect in some way but I sort of love it. When something goes a bit wrong I just think, oh well that's the not perfect bit!! It's like life, makes you appreciate the good bits more ;)

If you look at very old patchwork quilts - particlarly those made in religious communities - there is always a deliberate "mistake" made somewhere on the premise that "Only God is perfect". I stand by that in a lot of my work!Just go for it - whether it's a scrap or a skinny stripe!